Two unforunates on this — you need a WSJ subscription to read the article.
Second, this went on before my denial. But sounds a lot like the denial that was made.
Conflicts of Interest in Appeals at Cigna
When a little-known supplier offered a big discount on a device for diabetics, Cigna thought it sounded like a great deal. But Cigna’s deal on insulin pumps became a prime example of cost-cutting gone wrong, doctors and patients say
Servings radically different than package size. They should do the math not us.
What brought this on?
Bought lunch meat with different flavors in the package and serving si1 shows 3 slices but 4 slices in package.
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From my Treo
I have dust allergies and my mom is always trying to get me to vacuum daily — yeah, right, but finally I'm going to make her happy.
I finally broke down and bought a Roomba vacuum. Both my husband and I have been skeptical that it could handle the dog hair, but it appears it does it fine.
Amazing piece of technology. I got the "Discovery" edition and so far, I've got my living room clean. Probably going to leave it in the gym and front hallway tomorrow because I have it picked up and the major wads of hair are gone.
For some reason, I decided to try the self test — I DID use it when I first got the watch, and well, I have had it for a month.
Got "FAIL" every time.
So I called tech support today and while I'm on the phone … you guessed it … got a PASS both tries.
I figured they would say hang onto it, but they said we'll send you another one anyway. So it's on the way.
Of course, I’m always interested in anything like this.
I’m STILL not sure I want to do gastric surgery, though if I do, I need to start getting things together now, if I want to do it, as I would want to do it sometime after the AP Computer Science test.
Bariatric Surgery use in Type 2 Diabetes
Non-randomised observational studies show that bariatric surgery has a highly beneficial impact on diabetes. Bariatric surgery leads to remission of diabetes in at least two thirds of patients, and reductions in drug therapy for many others. Those with more recent onset diabetes, fewer treatment requirements, and able to achieve most weight loss are more likely to achieve remission. Therefore, bariatric surgery is an attractive treatment option to consider for selected more severely obese patients with favourable characteristics. Although data on bariatric surgery in subjects with diabetes are provocative, all recent clinical studies have been uncontrolled or otherwise flawed. Moreover, bariatric surgery has yet to be compared either with medical treatment for weight loss, or against standard medical treatment for diabetes in any randomised controlled trial with diabetes-specific end points. There remains a need for long-term randomised controlled trials before bariatric surgery is used more widely as a first-line treatment for obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
I've used my first box of insets and man or man do I love them. I've only yanked out two accidently which isn't too bad, especially for me.
I'm able to move my sites better with them, because the inserter lets me put the site where I can't see it. I also have fewer failed sites, because of the inserter.
And I love not having to see a needle!
I gritted my teeth and got on the scales this morning. I'm not gaining weight. Not losing it though.
The last three weeks have been REAL hard. I've been tired and as a result eating has been hard to control and even getting to working out has been hard too.
The new mask seems to be helping, but it takes a while to put the sleep back in the bank. Every time I have disrupted sleep it seems to take longer to recover. Age probably has something to do with it.
Splitting my cario workout has helped too. Getting up and doing 30 minutes is daunting, but doing 15 minutes in the morning and 15 in the afternoon is doable. Though this week I've gone to 15 in the morning and 20 in the evening — except I overslept yesterday and did 35 in the evening.
Blood sugar is virtually the same as yesterday morning, so that's not it.
But I definately had a better nights sleep last night and was able to wake up early. Still didn't get on the treadmill any faster, but once on, I think it was better. I actually considered doing the 20 minutes iShape suggested, rather than the 2 sets of 15, but I think I'm better off at that. Even considered strength exercises, but I do have a site change today.
I'm dropping basal rates again and doing the glucowatch again today. And the weight is going down, not up.